[Vision2020] Dash the Cat Being Evicted From Airport

[Tom Hansen]

Courtest of today's (February 2, 2009) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.

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Dash the cat being evicted from airport
Employees seeking new home for 4-year-old flame point Siamese

By Erin Fenner, For the Daily News
February 2, 2009

Dash the cat needs a new home.

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Dash plays with a string held by Blanche Anderson at the Pullman-Moscow 
Regional Airport on Friday. Regional managers from the Transportation 
Safety Administration recently decided Dash can no longer live in the back 
room of the airport. Anderson is a federal security officer at the airport.

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Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport Manager Robb Parish said regional managers 
from the Transportation Safety Administration recently decided Dash can't 
live in the back room of the airport anymore.

She can't live in the terminal, either, because of the risk posed to 
passengers with allergies.

Airport employees are trying to find a good family who wants to adopt Dash.

The 4-year-old flame point Siamese has been a fixture at the airport since 
she was found as a kitten trying to board one of the planes.

She was barely alive, and employees took turns taking her to the 
veterinarian until she recovered.

Parish said Dash is a people cat. She acts bored when people are not 
around and often goes into a corner and falls asleep.

"She seems to enjoy it when the terminal fills up with people," he said.

TSA employee Kim Mordhorst said Dash is good with children because she 
recognizes she has to be gentle with them.

TSA employee Lee Zimmerman said Dash likes to chase people's pant legs and 
swat at them like she is playing tag.

"She has been a therapeutic cat for the passengers who come and go," TSA 
employee Blanche Anderson said.

Employees said Dash will be missed at the airport.

Zimmerman said there hasn't been a mouse in the back room since Dash has 
lived there.

He said families come to the airport just to see the cat and don't even 
get on a plane.

Mordhorst said people who fly into the airport sometimes bring her cat 
toys and treats.

Parish hopes to find Dash a home with an active family because she's so 
playful.

Mordhorst said Dash would be happy anywhere where she can be pampered and 
allowed to rule the roost.

Most airport employees are not in a position to take Dash themselves 
because they are renting or already have animals, Mordhorst said.

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Flying out of Moscow will no longer be the same . . . not without Dash.

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho 


"For a lapsed Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist 
Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go 
to work."

- Roy Zimmerman


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